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Validating Unconscious Bias: Study Confirms Test’s Accuracy

A new study published this week validates those findings, showing that the Implicit Association Test, a psychological tool, has validity in predicting behavior…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Sequence Azotobacter Vinelandii Genome for Nitrogen Fixation Insights

The work will help advance research on A. vinelandii's role as a model study organism for investigation of nitrogen fixation and other biochemical processes….

Technology Offerings

Minimizing Plant Damage: New Methods Against Verticillium Sp.

The present invention concerns products and methods to prevent or reduce plant damage caused by Verticillium sp. The crops are treated with a biological…

Information Technology

GRIA – Grid Middleware Successfully Deployed in BEinGRID for Finance and Tourism

BEinGRID, as the project driving the implementation and deployment of Grid solutions in industry, could not miss this event. One of the solutions highlighted…

Health & Medicine

SO2SAY Project Aims to Replace Sulphur Dioxide in Foods

In addition, sulphur dioxide has strong antimicrobial capacity and preserves against microbial spoilage. “The SO2SAY project will develop a strategy to replace…

Information Technology

Innovative system for monitoring coastline processes

This is innovative technology for the sustainable management of the coast, involving the installation of a series of cameras located at strategic points along…

Health & Medicine

St. Gallen Consensus 2009: New Approach to Early Breast Cancer

The report is published online in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology [1] today (Thursday 18 June), and represents the consensus on early breast cancer…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Method Unveils Ferroelectric Materials’ Potential

The key to the finding, published in Science, involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Fishing Gear Bans Could Aid Coral Recovery

The international team of scientists has proposed that bans on fishing gear – like spear guns, fish traps, and beach seine nets – could aid in the recovery of…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Exhibit Planning Skills, Study Reveals New Insights

In a paper that appeared in the June 17, 2009 issue of Nature, Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, doctoral student Amir Mitchell, and research associate Dr. Orna Dahan of…

Physics & Astronomy

Freezing Oscillator Vibrations: A Breakthrough in Quantum Info Processing

The findings, published in Nature Physics, could boost advances in information processing that exploits special quantum properties and in…

Earth Sciences

New Method Enhances Storm Prediction Accuracy Using Temperature Data

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) have developed a way to measure temperature changes in the tops of…

Environmental Conservation

Rising Ocean Acidity Threatens Shellfish Industry and Jobs

Intensive burning of fossil fuels and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere by almost 40 percent. The oceans…

Life & Chemistry

Genome-Wide Map Reveals MicroRNA Functions in Genetics

MicroRNAs are the newest kid on the genetic block. By regulating the unzipping of genetic information, these tiny molecules have set the scientific world…

Life & Chemistry

Beaked Dinosaur Discovery Sheds Light on Finger Evolution

James Clark, The George Washington University’s Ronald B. Weintraub Professor of Biology, and Xu Xing, of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of…

Environmental Conservation

Palm Trees to Spruce: Unraveling Climate Shifts 33.5 Million Years Ago

One long-standing climate puzzle relates to a sequence of events 33.5 million years ago in the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene. Profound changes were underway….

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